Hold onto your helmets, it's time to open up the throttle on the most race-focused roadbike ever: Aprilia's RSV4

Aprilia RSV4 - engine cutaway

Aprilia RSV4 - akraprovic exhaust

Aprilia RSV4 - ohlins forks, brembo brakes

Aprilia RSV4 - fairings removed naked

Aprilia RSV4 - frame

Aprilia RSV4 - V4 engine

Aprilia RSV4 - engine in rolling chassis

Aprilia RSV4 - swingarm

Aprilia RSV4 - frame

Aprilia RSV4 - showa forks

Aprilia RSV4 - frame

Aprilia RSV4 - engine in frame

Aprilia RSV4 - engine

Aprilia RSV4 - engine in frame with tank

Aprilia RSV4 - carbs top down

Aprilia RSV4 - engine

Aprilia RSV4 - engine front on

Aprilia RSV4 - airbox top down

Aprilia RSV4 - frontal

Aprilia RSV4 - frame sections

Aprilia RSV4 - engine cutaway left

Aprilia RSV4 - engine

Aprilia RSV4 - airbox

Aprilia RSV4 - airbox cutaway

Aprilia RSV4 - carbs top down

Aprilia RSV4 - exhaust cutaway

Aprilia RSV4 - exhaust

Aprilia RSV4 - fairings and electrics removed

Aprilia RSV4 - cassette gearbox

Aprilia RSV4 - rolling chassis

Aprilia RSV4 - burnout

Aprilia RSV4 - racetrack

Aprilia RSV4 - racetrack kneedown

Aprilia RSV4 - racetrack

Aprilia RSV4 - racetrack

Aprilia RSV4 - cornering

Aprilia RSV4 - detail

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Article Summary

We've spent plenty of time looking at the spec sheets for Aprilia's barnstorming new superbike, the 180-horsepower RSV4 - and marvelling at the potential of what has to be the most race-focused roadbike ever to hit the market. Now it's time to take this beast out on the road and see how it goes. Sit back and enjoy our most in-depth video review yet - it's white knuckles and brown underpants as we road test the 2010 Aprilia RSV4-R.